"... This work investigates the use of focussed crawling tech-niques for the discovery of environmental multimedia Web resources that provide air quality measurements and fore-casts. Focussed crawlers automatically navigate the hyper-linked structure of the Web and select the hyperlinks to follow by esti ..."

This work investigates the use of focussedcrawling tech-niques for the discovery of environmentalmultimediaWebresources that provide air quality measurements and fore-casts. Focussed crawlers automatically navigate the hyper-linked structure of the Web and select the hyperlinks to follow

"... The popularity of peer-to-peer multimedia file sharing applications such as Gnutella and Napster has created a flurry of recent research activity into peer-to-peer architectures. We believe that the proper evaluation of a peer-to-peer system must take into account the characteristics of the peers th ..."

The popularity of peer-to-peer multimedia file sharing applications such as Gnutella and Napster has created a flurry of recent research activity into peer-to-peer architectures. We believe that the proper evaluation of a peer-to-peer system must take into account the characteristics of the peers

"... While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the location of resources to resolve a specific query, and considers the associated design issue. Aspects of the work ..."

While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the location of resources to resolve a specific query, and considers the associated design issue. Aspects of the work

"... Recent empirical and case study evidence documents a strong association between the adoption of computers and increased use of college educated or non-production workers. With few exceptions, the conceptual link explaining how computer technology complements skilled labor or substitutes for unskille ..."

Recent empirical and case studyevidence documents a strong association between the adoption of computers and increased use of college educated or non-production workers. With few exceptions, the conceptual link explaining how computer technology complements skilled labor or substitutes

"... . The proliferation ofcomputing into the physical world promises more than the ubiquitous availability of computing infrastructure; it suggests new paradigms of interaction inspired by constant access to information and computational capabilities. For the past decade, applicationdriven research in ..."

computing implicitly requires addressing some notion of scale; whether in the number and type of devices, the physical space of distributed computing or the number of people using a system. We posit a new area of applications research, everyday computing, focussed on scaling interaction with respect to time

"... From a software-technology point of view, the-kernel concept is superior to large integrated kernels. On the other hand, it is widely believed that (a)-kernel based systems are inherently inefficient and (b) they are not sufficiently flexible. Contradictory to this belief, we show and support by doc ..."

by documentary evidence that inefficiency and inflexibility of current-kernels is not inherited from the basic idea but mostly from overloading the kernel and/or from improper implementation. Based on functional reasons, we describe some concepts which must be implemented by a-kernel and illustrate